Back in 2017 I wrote a blog entry called “A Thermostat Weekend” – some weekend that turned out to be. Well, to cut a long story short, the stat worked but I was at the time just finding out all about NEST and other modern stats and so my ESP-GO/Node-Red…
Month: February 2019
EleksMaker Pro Laser Engraver
Update February 28, 2019 Last year year I put together this excellent A3 laser engraving machine. Originally, a 500mW laser module arrived complete with its own power supply (the laser which was not included in the basic kit). It turns out that was the wrong laser and now I have…
ACEPC Intel Z8350 TV Box with Windows
I recently received a long-awaited Windows TV box in the post from Banggood. Initial impressions? Well, I’m still having fun with it some days later. The ACEPC T9 comes with Intel Atom x5-8350, 4GB DDR RAM and 32GB 5MMC along with 2.4G/5G WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0, USB3.0 and Windows 10.
Digital Mini Inclinometer
Another item in the post this morning – for when the old fashioned inclinometer will no longer do – how about one powered by a pair of AAA batteries… this one came complete with full English instructions from GearBest. A neat little gadget, the “Mini Digital Protractor Inclinometer Angle Gauge”…
Bosch Go Pro Screwdriver
Today in the post I received a Bosch Go Professional Screwdriver from GearBest. Here’s the link: https://goo.gl/3FD61q Every word of the manual was in Chinese – but thanks to Google I immediately found the multilingual pdf manual online complete with a comprehensive English section. As it turns out, the manual…
BackLit Keyboard Issues
No, not a review, yet… but I can see that coming. This is about PC backlit keyboards and the problems you can have with both cheap and expensive versions. My first gripe is the number of sellers on the web who claim to be UK based, then what you get…
BigTimer and getMoonTimes
I just spent ages debugging issue with theSunCalc module used in Node-Red-Contrib–BigTimer. It turns out that the getMoonTimes module doesn’t seem to handle the alwaysUp and alwaysDown methods the way one might expected – these do not return FALSE if not TRUE – they return undefined – that took some…
Devices recently connected to the network
Can I give the Raspberry Pi any MORE to do? This started off as a plea for help – as I could not find a way to get reliable reporting of changed devices on my network – as you’ll see, now CRACKED thanks to readers and in particular Mr Shark.…